Editing Wake-on-LAN (section)

==History==
The basis for the ''Wake-on-LAN''-industry standard mechanism today, was created around 1994 by [[AMD]] in cooperation with [[Hewlett-Packard]], who co-developed AMD's ''Magic Packet Technology'' and brought forth their following proposal for it in November 1995 in an AMD whitepaper.<ref name="AMD-WoL-Whitepaper">{{cite web |url=https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/archived-tech-docs/white-papers/20213.pdf |title=Magic Packet Technology |type=white paper |id=20213, Rev: A Amendment/0 |publisher=AMD |date=November 1995 |access-date=25 December 2024}}</ref> It enabled a remote network device to be woken up through the underlying “power management circuitry”, by sending it a standard Ethernet frame, which “contains a specific data pattern detected by the Ethernet-controller on the receiving end”.

AMD implemented the WoL mechanism in their ''AMD PCnet II''-Family of Ethernet controllers before. The term ''“Magic Packet”'' is a AMD trademark.<ref name="AMD-WoL-Whitepaper" />

Wake-on-LAN saw wide adoption starting in October 1996, when [[IBM]] formed the ''Advanced Manageability Alliance'' (AMA) with [[Intel]]. In April 1997, this alliance adopted the Wake-on-LAN technology.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/519210/intel_ibm_strike_deal_lower_pc_ownership_costs/ |title=IBM, Intel strike deal to lower PC ownership costs |first=Kristi |last=Essick |work=[[Computerworld]] |location=New Zealand |date=31 October 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208132411/http://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/519210/intel_ibm_strike_deal_lower_pc_ownership_costs/ |access-date=28 October 2015|archive-date=2015-12-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012155338/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/2705.wss |archive-date=2012-10-12 |url=http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/2705.wss |title=IBM Announces Universal Management - Industry's Most Comprehensive Tools to Lower Total Cost of Ownership |date=14 April 1998 |work=IBM News Room |access-date=28 October 2015}}</ref>

Contrary to most networking protocols, no formal [[Request for Comments|Request for Comments (RFC)]] documents have been created for Wake-on-LAN, but nevertheless it remains a standard that is widely used in the industry.